By Roy Dean Doughty Written January 8th, 2009 Listen here for my reading of “Mute Rendezvous.” The loud, but little sounds of the replicas Slide down and away after midnight, And the silence becomes like an expanding Projectile, softly exploding outward As the calmest violence. The masonry crumbles, The steel and glass dissolve. Then, […]

By Roy Dean Doughty Written October 7th, 2007 Listen here for my reading of “Nocturnal Undoing.” Although the enfeebled stars and the waning moon Are scarcely visible, they still possess, Through the intercessions of enumerable Tiny threads, the potency to pull us from our sleep. Now they have set us to wandering in a […]

By Roy Dean Doughty Written August 16th, 2009 Listen here for my reading of “River Bed.” Our tale unfolds in one of those bleak villages Where the people cling tenaciously to custom As a dreary way to put an end to time. Here, it is always winter, forever night, And although the snows lie […]